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During the days leading up to graduation, Senior Week offered members of the class of 2016 one more chance to celebrate and come together through several different events. Senior Week committee head Sarah Price said her experience working Senior Week as a junior last year equipped her with the skills and knowledge necessary to plan this

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A lot can change in four years. When I first arrived at Notre Dame four years ago, my dad, like many other fathers, helped me move into my new dorm. He carried boxes, lofted beds and sweated along with the rest of the class of 2016 and their parents as we began our time at

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Political science major and Ryan Hall resident Abby Davis was named the Notre Dame class of 2016 valedictorian Monday morning, the University announced in a press release. Hailing from Avon Lake, Ohio, Davis is a Hesburgh-Yusko scholar and a member of both the Glynn Family Honors program and the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, according to

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If you are a graduating senior, you know the swirling, complex feelings conjured up by the prospect of departure. Maybe you have scarcely had time to consider them fully with the onslaught of final projects and exams looming just a week away. Maybe you have hidden them away like an unsightly thing that you cannot

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As a second-semester senior, I’ve engaged in a good amount of reflection on my time here at Notre Dame, which means I’ve spent several months asking myself, “What have I learned?” In my Common App essay, I told universities I was excited to go to college because I really liked learning — enjoy my terribly

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As May approaches, graduating seniors face many revolutionary changes that will shock their presently comfortable lives — probably none quite as politically in-the-moment trendy cool as the Bernie Sanders campaign call for insurgency or as physically and chaotically rebellious as a Donald Trump mosh pit during a rally. Yet, the immersion from a Catholic Disneyland campus

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I’m graduating in two months, and I want to leave behind some parting advice for anyone who has anywhere from just those two months to three or four whole years left in their time at college. In my almost four years at Notre Dame, I’ve noticed it is very easy to fall into routines. The

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Kanye West has been a fixture in both hip-hop and the media in general for the past 10 years. Whether he’s creating innovative music and fashion or dissing Taylor Swift at the VMA’s, Kanye tumultuous history has been memorable to say the least. We at Scene have spent all week compiling some of our favorite Kanye

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President Obama scared me Tuesday night. In his final State of the Union address, in his final full year in office — his “senior year,” if you will — he challenged Congress and the country to think and act on the future. “For my final address to this chamber, I don’t want to talk just

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At what point do we stop dreaming, and resign ourselves to lives of monotony and conformity? As children, we are all taught we can be whatever we want to be, we should follow our passions and if we do what we love, we will never work a day in our lives. This is the key